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Watch Your Tongue: Law Enforcement Speech Recognition System Stores Millions of Voices
Intercepting thousands of phone calls is easy for government agencies. But quickly analyzing the calls and identifying the callers can prove a difficult task.
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Bionic Eyes: Sensors That se Lookout's Brainwaves to Spot Trouble
As good as surveillance technology has gotten at some tasks, computers still frequently fail when it comes to figuring out the difference between a threat and a...
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Does Rise of Biometrics Mean a Future Without Anonymity?
Long envisioned as an alternative to remembering scores of computer passwords or lugging around keys to cars, homes and businesses, technology that identifies people...
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'flame' Malware May Have Siblings, Study Finds
A new Flame malware report suggests that the malware's command-and-control interface was made to manage at least four different types of malware, meaning that there...
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Computer Simulations for Multiscale Systems Can Be Faster, Better, More Reliable
University of Oregon researchers have developed a method to reproduce the structure and thermodynamic qualities of large, multiscale systems at variable levels...
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Icann Faces Battles Over New Web Domains
Former ICANN interim CEO Akram Atallah says ICANN does not plan to announce the results of any of the 1,930 new generic top-level domain submissions it received...
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Stuxnet Tricks Copied By Computer Criminals
Malicious code apparently used by governments to spy on, harass, and sabotage one another has grabbed headlines in recent years, yet the highly targeted nature...
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Scientists Ponder Interstellar Travel at Nasa-Backed Space Summit
In one room, scientists debated whether the White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer will help find a way to bend the space-time continuum and make interstellar travel...
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The Jacket That Talks to Facebook
SINTEF researchers have developed a jacket that can communicate with Facebook.
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Researchers Study How to Wedge Wireless Broadband Between TV Signals
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are studying the best ways to utilize white space to increase the data rates of wireless communication.
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Intel Researchers Put Wi-Fi Inside—the Processor, That Is
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner unveiled a pair of technologies coming out of Intel Labs that will...
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A Robot With a Reassuring Touch
If you grab the hand of a two-armed robot named Baxter, it will turn its head and a pair of cartoon eyes—displayed on a tablet-size computer-screen "face"—will...
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It's Official: The Era of the Personal Computer Is Over
As a signpost on the road to the so-called Post-PC Era we’ve been hearing about for so many years, this one is pretty hard to argue with: As of this year, personal...
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Google's Restricting of Anti-Muslim Video Shows Role of Web Firms As Free-Speech Arbiters
Google lists eight reasons on its "YouTube Community Guidelines" page for why it might take down a video. Inciting riots is not among them.
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Twitter Reluctantly Coughs p Occupy Protester's Data
Twitter on Friday reluctantly complied with a judge's order to divulge the tweets and account information connected to an Occupy protester.
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Flame C&c Server Analysis Reveals New Malware in the Wild
Forensic analysis of a number of Flame malware toolkit command-and-control servers revealed an additional three unidentified pieces of malicious code are under...
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Wired Is the New Wireless: Spreading the Web in China
It's not easy to give over 1.3 billion people access to the internet—especially if that population is spread across a vast area that ranges from hinterland to sprawling...
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Europe Hits Old Internet Address Limits
Ripe NCC, the governing body that hands out addresses to European Internet service providers and other organizations, has started strict rationing of IPv4 addresses...
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Icann's New Ceo Announces Bold Restructure
New ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade recently announced his plans to restructure the organization, including the selection of two new senior managers.
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